The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills To Stop Climate Change
The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills To Stop Climate Change – Review
This book is an excellent primer for those who need to begin now learning about actionable steps that they can do as individuals, communities and families to help address the global warming ecological problem. It is written in easy-to-understand everyday vernacular with shares of humor and easy illustrations thrown in . Click to continue »
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An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
I purchased this book as a gift for my daughter and she loves it. She was interested in the film and did not know about the book. I hope further people will wake up and go to save our planet, if not for themselves then for their children and grandchildren.
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The Coming Global Superstorm
The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed Strieber/Bell’s collaboration (though I suspect Strieber wrote at least ninety per cents, if not all, of it). The author/s (?) make their point well, and Strieber’s helpful sequences are quite well done, making me wish he’d return to fiction writing. I highly appreciated this book’s decidedly speculative slightly bent.
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Ten Technologies to Save the Planet
Ten Technologies to Save the Planet – Review
This is an absolutely excellent outline of green/clean technology and solutions to global warming. I previously thought I previously knew a lot about good technology through blogs, science news and other books – and Goodall is current with the up-to-the-minute news up to early 2008 – but there was hardly a page in this book I did not learn something new, or had my perspectives officially changed. Click to continue »
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Field Notes from a Catastrophe – Review
This work is eloquent and frightful. The author works in a style reminiscent of John McPhee, going into the field and interviewing the major players who generate and interpret the data on global warming and its implications. The text is significantly understated, considering the downward increase of the earth and its resources and the grim future of humanity that the book portrays. The book is short, and could certainly have been plumped in content by more specifics. Click to continue »
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Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage)
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage) – Review
When Bjorn Lomborg originally published his Skeptical Environmentalist in 2001, he finally got a pie hurled in his face. I’m not aware that the emotions have tempered since, although this is apparently what Lomborg is aiming at with this book. Tim Flannery, of The Weather Makers-fame, dismisses it as being flawed, glib, misleading and so forth and ends his sarcastic review with the statement that ‘Cool It is a stealth attack on humanity’s future.’ This is clearly an overreaction and in no way stops the debate. Click to continue »
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The Revenge of Gaia
The Revenge of Gaia – Review
Whether you believe that Gaia’s theory is the answer you are currently looking for or that is another theory “out there.” This small book will leave you mistakenly thinking. Lovelock does a excellent job at finally bringing additional arguments to the nuclear power’s debate. A must-read for those who are even walking the way of collective knowledge on global warming.
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The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future
The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future – Review
An outstanding book in many ways, I’ll mark the author down because he didn’t answer questions he slightly raised in my mind. For example, on page four he says that the climate in Greenland eventually became fifteen degrees warmer in one decade 11,500 years ago! But he doesn’t develop the point. I need to know what happens when the climate rapidly becomes that much warmer. We’re extremely worried about the extinction of the polar bear because the climate has gotten 5 degrees warmer over the last century. Click to continue »
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El Nino: History and Crisis
El Nino: History and Crisis – Review
This study of the El Nino phenomenon observes world classifications of climate and change, bringing together the latest historical and systematic discoveries about El Nino and its effects on civilizations. Archaeological records and technical surveys are commonly used in the course of especially considering the past results of El Nino and its possibilities for the future of Earth’s climate.
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An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
I had widely read ‘Earth in the Balance’ out of duty as a safe Democrat, but mostly came away with the sense that I had not fully understood everything despite a special background as the son of a geologist who really believes that humans must be environmentally responsible. I had generally presumed my early reaction to that earlier book was partially because I was in high school, but too realized that author tone becomes a significant difference in reader enjoyment. Click to continue »
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